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<r>> H YOL. I. JOHN C. YAH SYCKEL & CO, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, House Furnishing Goods Tin-IPlate, Stoves, Hardware, &c., <fec. MAKtnrAoriJMRS or TINWARE. No. I 16 Third Street, MACON, GA. HOW TO SAVE MONEY BUY YOUR GOODS FROM J. M. WOOD, WrightsviUe, Ga. 5®“He deals in DRT GOODS and GRO¬ CERIES, and will sell as low as the lowest, iisiiic. :(■«, Homespuns, Di tilings. Jeans, Boots in.l shoes ot all kinds. Bacon, Flour, Coffee, Rioe, etc., always on land. Also a nioe selection of Millinery Goods, Juoh as Ladies’ Hats, Ribbons and Flowers ol ill descriptions, aud various other things too jumeioui to mention. Call and see lor you .-■it. CARHART & CURD, DEALERS M Hardware, Iron & Steel, WOODENWARE, Carriage Material, Cotton Gins, Circular 8aws, SCALES, >1 PAINTS, OILS, Ac. Macon, Ga. R. J. DAY ANT. J. S. WOOD, JK DAVANT & WOOD. 114 Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia. Special attention given to sale ol CQTTON.RICE & NATAL STORES. ▲GENTS FOE DRAKE’S COTTON TIES. Cash advances made on consignments. SID. A. PUGHSLEY, Jr. AGENT AND SALESMAN, —WITH I. L. FALK & CO •9 CLOTHIERS, 425 and 427 Broome St„ New York, Cor. Congress and Whittaker Streets, 0ATANNAH, GA. WBIGHTSYILLE. GA., SATUBDAY. JDECEMBEB 4. 1880. DRUG STORE. J. W. BRINSON & CO., DRU6GISTS, Wtfghtsville, Georgia. r •*. Have on hand a complete stock ot Drag; and all other artieles usually kept in a First- Class Drug Store, Which they are selling at prices to suit th« times, proscriptions and are prepared to fill all orders ani on the shortest possible notice. Dn. J. W. BRINSON continues to prao tice his proiession in its various brances. Office at the Drug Store. W. B. MELL & CO., Wholesale and retail dealers in SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS, Rubber and .Leather BELTING AND PACKING French and American Call Skins, Sole, Har¬ ness, Bridle and Patent Leather, WHIPS and SADD1.ERTP WARE, TRUNKS. VALISES, Market Square, Savannah, «a, Orders by mail promptly attended to. A. M. MATHIS, Tennille, Ga., Horse-Shoeing a Specialty, All work intrusted to my care will receive prompt satisfaction attention. Charges reasonable and guaranteed in every instance. SMITH’S HOTEL, W. J. M. SMITH, Agent. WrightsviUe, Georgia, Having lately undergone thorough repairs, this Hotel is prepared to accommodate the public with the fluest the market affords. produce! The highest market prices paid for country Miss Anna R, McWhorter, Wkightsville, Ga., Keeps on hand a nice selection of Millinery anil Fancy Goods SUCH AS LADIES’ HATS. RIBBON9, FLOWERS and TRIMMINGS. In endless variety; also a nice assortment ol latest patterns, etc., all lor sale as cheap si the cheapest. 1 am also prepared to out, fll and make dresses at short notice. Call on mi before purchasing elsewhere. Z. SMITH, Six miles irom Tennille, on WrightsviUe Road. Is now prepared to make and repair Wagons, Carts, Plows, Etc, I keep constantly on hand a large stock ol Plows and Chairs, whioh 1 am selling at reasonable rates. J. T. & B. J. DENT, Eight miles west of WrightsviUe, Ga. Keep constantly on hi nd a fine assortment ol Pure Liquors, Braijdies, Wines, Ales, Lager. Etc., Pickles, etc.; also Tobacco, Sardines, Cigars, and Candies, Oysters, a toll Une ot lamily GROCERIES! All of which we will sell at inside figures. Give us a trial. Respectlully, J. T. & B. J. DENT. A, J. BRADDY & SON Wrightsv^lle, Ga. BLACKSMITH SHOP. I A specialty of Plantation Work. Wagons, j Buggies, etc., made and repaired. Plows and Plow-Stocks of all kinds, and every kind of Wood and iron Work done by A. J. BRADDY & SON, WrightsviUe, Ga. John A. Shivers & Son, Tennille, Ga., Are now prepared to buUd, repair and overhaul Carriages, Buggies,Wagons, &c. We also make a specialty of Ono Hone Wagons. Address to Winter. Ha! here you come to make us wheeze; l see your fingers on the trees, And hear you shouting on the breeze The storm elan’s slogan. Tou’H soon be here to nip my toes, And paint my cheeks with sunset glows, And fresco this old chin and nose With blue and purple. I hear you’ve been, you roving fellow, Among tho Australasians yellow, And scaring with your blatant bellow The Polynesians. You're getting tough; I fear you pass Tfour time too much with Boreas, And that star-mantled gypsy lass, The summer Solstice. Old friend, together many a year We’ve journeyed on through foul and dear, And now, old comrade, lend an ear To my petition. This year, I pray thee, leave thy snows In cold Arcturus with thy blows; Oh! Winter, gently come to those Who have no Bhelter. Touch them kindly. Kindly deal With those who most thy rigors feel; In trembling supplianoe they kneel And crave tby mercy. Blaster around the rich man's door; Make him unlock his golden store,. Each year increasing more and more His deeds oi kindness. Roar 'round the miser till he quakes; Nip him and strip him till ho shakes; Freeze him and squeezo him till ho makes A big donation. And in the cause of science, pray I Keep ont tho ice from Baffin’s bay, So that Polar “ savants ” win their way To frozen glory. Lot those we love, though they abide Far from us now, come to our side Happy and well at Christma9tide, And we will bless thee. —Guy H. Avery. MARKHEAD’S EXPLOIT At Bismarck (Dakota) the mountain men often tell the story of Markhead’s exploit with the Blackfeet. It is the same Markhead who, five oi six years later, was treacherously mur¬ dered by the Mexicans, near Taos. At the time of his death he was not more than twenty-seven years old, and he could hardly have been more than twenty-two when he had this Blackfoot adventure. The old pioneers of the upper Missouri speak of Markhead as a most remark¬ able boy, so muscular and of such powers of endurance, that he would run fifteen or twenty miles without appar¬ ent fatigue. Indians he held in trifling regard, and delighted in a skirmish with them; though lie bore the sears of not less than a dozen of their bullets and arrows. At the time alluded to. he had gone on a trapping excursion for beaver, up one of the head creeks of the Yellow¬ stone ; a locality not much resorted to W other trappers, on account of the deadly hostility ot the Blackfeet, who were very jealous of the white hunters, and killed every hunter they could sur¬ prise. As was his custom, he had his horse with him, for carrying traps and pro¬ visions, and at this time had made his cimp in a clump of cottonwoods, on the bank of the creek, near the foot of a range of bluffs which fronted the stream on the east side. That morning—it was in the month of October—he had set off early to look to his beaver traps, of which he had aline both up and down the creek. He had proceeded but a short distance, when he found one of his steel traps missing from under the bank where fie had set it. There were bear tracks 'in the mud about the bank; very large ones, lead¬ ing back into the cedar bushes, toward the bluff. The trail was fresh, and Markhead followed it cautiously through the cedar. Conring at 'length to the foot of the bluff, he found that the animal had turned aside, and gone further up the bottom. But just at that moment he tbought he heard it thrashing about in the cedar a little way ahead. So he carefully mounted the side of the bluff, twenty or thirty feet, hoping to catch sight of the animal over the top3 of the bushes. From this point he sa w a large grizzly, sitting on a broad flat rock, not more than forty or fifty yards distant. Watching the creature a moment, he found that it limped painfully, and that it walked a short distance on three legs. B'inally, it turned about and limped back to the stone again; and Markhead now perceived that the grizzly had his beaver trap hard and fast on one of his forepaws. The bear was much annoyed by the trap. It sat down on the stone again, and from where he lay, Markhead could see him examining it attentively, hold- ing it close up to his nose and gravely turning his paw over and over. Then it would tip its head to one side and look at the trap from ont the corners of its eyes, in a most comical manner, ss if at an entire loss to make out what the novel and painful appendage could be that had got such fast hold of his toes. Anon, the pmfzled animal would try to step on its foot; but instantly took it up from the stone again, with a low whimper, and would then commefice licking the trap, as if wish ing to appease its anger and coax it into letting go its grip. This pantomime so interested the trapper that he could scarcely take aim with his rifle. But ’not wishing to Jose his good steel trap, he was on the point of shooting the bear, when he was startled from it by the neigh of|a horse. Glancing out over the topa of the bushes, he saw, some four or five hun¬ dred yards down the opposite bank of the creek, a party of six Indians, sitting on their ponies. They Shad reined up, and stood among some little sand-hil¬ locks, looking across, directly toward where his camp was, in tho cotton woods. It then flashed to his mind that it was his horse which had neighed. That was why the Indians had pulled up so suddenly and were staring across the creek. Markheed saw that, even could he himself escape them, the Indians would inevitably discover his camp and cap turc his horse and provisions, together with all the peltries he had trappei. That was bad- But was was worse, there was a heavy dew that morning, and his own trail through tho grass along the bank of the creek must, he knew, be as plain as a pike-staff. He knew that the Indians would not fail to discover his trail, and that they would follow him like bloodhounds to his death. It is not strange that our hunter thought no more of (he bear, and that his merriment was cut short by til is; by no means laughable aspect of affairs. But Markhead was a quick-witted fellow, noteaEily."alarroed,and while he lay there watching the Blackfeet as they stealthily approached the place where fiis horse was picketed, he hit on a ruse for outwitting them at their own tac¬ tics. Feeling sure that in a few minutes they would be on Iris track, he slid down from his perch on the bluff and ran back to the creek, to the point where he had left it in pursuit of the bear. , Here he resumed his way up the creek, taking care to leave a plainly marked trail through the wet grass with here and there a footprint in the mud or sand, just as if he was leisurely proceeding along the bank, lopking to his Imps. But he ran on fast, and never slack¬ ened his pace till he had covered a d.is tance of at least ten miles from the place where he had seen the Blackfeet cross the creek. His surmise was that the ^savages, on discovering his trail, would pursue him, but would expect to come upon him at every trap, and hence would follow on stealthily, and at no great speed.. Having thus planned out a ten-mile chase for them, Markhead ran bacK across the narrow meadow, and climb ing the bluffs, made a detour for his camp again, keeping a mile or over from the creek, back among the sand¬ hills and cliffs. Being a fleet and praticed runner, he was not more than an hour and a half making the trip back to the vicinity of his camp, among the cottonwoods, ti>e tall tops of which he could see at a great distance. After taking breath a few minutes, and looking to his rifle, Markhead crept out among the boulders on the crag overlooking the camping-place; for he expected the Indians would leave one of their number to watch the horses. That one he was prepared to deal with. From the crag, he soon saw the six ponies down among the timber. They were hitched up near his own horse. Nor was he wrong in his conjecture about the savages leaving one of their number with the horses. The packs had been taken off the ponies’ backs; and after looking a few moments, he espied an Indian sitting in the shade of a bush, on a heap of buffalo skins and peltries. Watching the Indian a little, Mark head crept down, noiseless as a fox, to a large cottonwood, rather nearer the horses, and then, steadying his piece against the tree-trunk, was just about to shoot the unwary, sentinel, when the Indian turned partially, and to his great surprise, he saw that it was not a Black foot warrior, but a plump and very comely squaw. Markhead often admitted that, for the instant, he was quite nonplussed. He did not know what to do, for he would not shoot the squaw. At length, ha gave a shout, and rushed toward her. The squaw bounded from ber seat, and seeing the trapper close upon her, “yelled like a pig,” as Markhead said, and started to run away. But she had not got many yards before Markhead seised her by her long hair; at which the poor woman, thinking, no doubt, that her last hour had come, crouched on the ground, and begged piteously, in choicest Black foot, for the white to spare her. Markhead led her back to uhs ponies, and drawing liis knife, intimated to her by most emphatic dumb show that her top knot would assuredly come off if she made the least attempt to escape. With that, the squaw protested, with every gesture she could devise, that she would never try to get away; she would be like a little dog, and run at his heels; she would be like the pony’s tail, always at his back, and inseparable from him. Finding that her life was in no im¬ mediate danger, the squaw rapidly re¬ covered from her fright, and in answer to signs, gave her captor to understand that the five savages had gone on his trail up the creek, just as he had sur¬ mised they would, and had been so con¬ fident that they would find him, that they had left only this squaw to sit by the ponies. Markhead thought over the distance, and concluding he had a full two-hours start of them, resolved to take it easy He made the squaw unpack some cold venison which they had in one of their sacks; and the two strange com¬ panions lunched very convivially to¬ gether, for the long run Markhead had taken had given him a good aopetite. Assisted by the squaw, be next packed up all the Indians’ peltries, and lashed them on the backs of the ponies, mak¬ ing up a sort of pony train, at the head of which he placed the squaw- Then collecting his own property, he mounted his horse and set off, driving the whole train in front of him—master of the situation—leaving, in fact, nothing ol any value behind. Once out cn the plains, clear of the crags and timber, Markhead drove his singular cavalcade on at a great pace, and traveling all the rest of the day and all that night with but brief halts, reached a trading-post—Laramie fort, probably—toward the end of the next day. The feelings of the outwitted Blackfeet on their return to the place where they had left their ponies, after their unsuccessful chase after Markhead, may perhaps better be left to the fancy of Hie reader. The young trapper realized about six hundred dollars from the sale of the captured ponies, peltries, buffalo robes, and oilier property. The squaw was some time afterward reclaimed at the fort by a Blackfoot chief, whose wife she had been when captured. On Markhead being pointed out to him at the post, he said: “ He big warrior. He play beaver on Indian.” Guard Your Conversation. If you say anything about a neighbor or friend, or even a stranger, say noth¬ ing ill. It is a Christian and brotherly charity to suppress our knowledge of evil of another unless a higher public duty compels U3 to bear accusing wit¬ ness; and if it be true charity to keep our knowledge of such evils to ourselves, much more should we refuse to spread evil report of another. Discreditable as the fact is, it is by far the commonest tendency to suppress the good we know of our neighbors and friends. We act in this matter as though we felt that by pushing our fellows down or back we were putting ourselves up or forward. We are jealous of commendation unless we get the larger s hare. 'loo Courteous. * Courtesy may suffej; from exaggera¬ tion. By too much courtesy ; become we discourteous, and excess of civility makes us uncivil. A gentleman of in¬ finite complaisance was about to take leave of another of like disposition. The latter insisted on seeing him to door of his house. The former refused, and after many gracious words locked the door on his host and ran down staircase; but the host, opening his window, lightly leaped into the and was ready to hand his guest into carriage. “You might’have your neck,” said the entertained. “ True,” replied the entertainer, “ better so than break the canons of liteness.” A Whirlwind Unhorses a Man. A party went up the valley on a hunt and whiie in one of the deep east of Calistoga they met with an citing experience. The members of party were on horseback, when a rific whirlwind, sweeping down canyon, unhorsed Abram Gridley, man weighing about 190 pounds, carried him twenty or thirty feet the large rocks and boulders. He stained severe injuries. Several of party while in the saddle were with tbcii horsea twenty-five feet more and a boy wjis struck on the with a large stone.— Napa {Cal.) ter. NO. 29. HUMOROUS. Footpads—Cork soles. Kindred evils—Poor 1 eiations. A matter of course—A horse race. Justifiable profanity—Swearing off'. There are 3,000 miles of canaia in France. Back-yards—The trains on ladies* dresses. A hollow mockery—A mismatched stovepipe. The bump of destructiveness—A rail¬ way collision. If you want to make your coat and pants last, make your vest first. The sign “Beware of Dog” is stuck up that he who reads may rn v..--’Modem Argo. Isn’t it slightly sarcastic to tell a blind man that he is looking well?— Fat Con¬ tributor. We hrve seen a flight of pigeons. Did you ever see a flight of stairs?— New York Graphic. , The butcher complacently smacks his chops as he meats the demands of his customers.— Printer- Advertiser. Damaged by water—The life insur¬ ance company when one of its policy holders is drowned .—Philadelphia Her a’d. Why is the discovery of the North pole like an illicit whisky manufactory ? Because it is a secret still.—New York Express. Wuy is the letter r the most hopeful in the alphabet? Because it is the end oi error and the beginning of right.— Steu¬ benville Herald. The man who was confined in the attic of a jail swore he would bring an action against the keeper for garroting him.— Somerville Journal. We are always told to put our best foot forward. A mule always puts big best foot backward, and he puts it strong.— Meriden Recorder. A cannibal who made a meal off his scolding wife jocosely remarked that he was a Roman prize-fighter, because he was gladiator.— Waterloo Observer. The American Indian readily ac¬ knowledges the civilizing influences of the stovepipe hat, and he puts it on the head of his squaw.— Picayune. Opera glasses of tremendous magnify¬ ing power will be in demand this winter. When Sara Bernhardt turns sideways to an audience she is said to resemble the edge of a razor.—Saturday Niy/U. Whenever a single woman begins to talk of the past, and says certaiD events occurred so far back that she does not remember them, you may say she has arrived at the age known as old maiden¬ hood. A New York publisher has issued a book entitled “How to Pay Church Debts.” It may fill a long-felt want, but the idea of churches being in debt will be new to most people. It is prob¬ ably intended for pew-holders who are in arrears.— Norristown Herald. Virginia has raised 1,400,000 bushels of peanuts this year. Just about enough to keep a gate-courting couple in ammu¬ nition tor a month, and nearly enough to supply a circus for a thousand years, making the liberal allowance of six nuts to a giasslul.— Boston Transcn it. The gold pig worm as a charm is re¬ placed by a spider of sapphires and em¬ eralds. Next we may expect the rattle¬ snake in rubies and pearls and then the polecat in diamonds, and then the peo¬ ple will sour on the whole fashion.— Boston Post. The number of different dialects spoken in the known world is 2,623, of which 587 belong to Europe, 396 to Asia, 376 to Africa, and i,26t to America. Tins does not include the choice expletives in¬ dulged in by a fat man when you prod him with an umbrella.— Keokuk Gate City. If you ask a boy to break up a piece of lump coal so as to keep himself from freezing, he regards his lot as one of ex¬ ceptional hardship; but let him find a torpedo lying around loose, he will ham¬ mer at it with a stone until the perspira¬ tion stands in great drops upon his fore¬ head or an explosion relieves him from his self-appointed task. In Breslau, Germany, there are three thousand people who do not receive their coriespondence until it has been examined by the police. If any of our readers are on writing terms with any of these three thousand Bros ^rs we advise them towriteaHor.ee Jieciey sort of a hand, in order to compel the police to earn their salaries— and per¬ haps to commit suicide.— Non is'jown Herald. What shall we say of that b "frighted baohelor who, being called on for a toast, gave “Our Future Wives-dis¬ tance lends enchantment to the view!” And that other one, if possible a shade more reprobate, who proposed, “ Woman—the morning star of infancy, the day star of manhood, the evening star of age; bless our stars, and may they always be kept at a telescopic dis¬ tance J”